I see the primary point of Wikimania as an opportunity for the community to
meet in person once a year. Many important initiatives for our movement
have grown out of Wikimania including but not limited to: Wikivoyage, the
copyright detection bot, our collaboration with the World Health
Organization, our collaboration with Cochrane, our collaboration with the
NIH, efforts at offline distribution, etc. That the events garner attention
from local press is definitely a plus though :-)
James
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
In that case what is the point of Wikimania.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 10 November 2016 at 14:25, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
You do not get it. Wikimania is first and foremost about spreading the
word
about what we do and who we are.
{{citationneeded}}
The reality is Wikimania is largely a community event first, with the
public outreach element an enhancement or afterthought.
The Wikimania meta page doesn’t include the words “spread”, “outreach”,
“public”, or “educate” at all.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
-Andrew
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